Each instalment is designed to help data custodians, producers and users better understand the challenges they face and the roles that they play in creating, managing and preserving digital information over time. For each topic covered, suggestions for best practice and real life examples are given.

To ensure that the Curation Reference Manual remains as relevant as possible, the DCC will undertake periodic reviews of the individual instalments and may commission updates where necessary to reflect any major developments in digital curation.

As an added quality control, our peer review panel, comprising a number of international experts in the field of digital curation, reviews each instalment produced.

Open Science case studies

Can openness among researchers benefit science? Read more about the three-month study funded by RIN and NESTA, which examined the motivation for – and advantages of – sharing data, and records of the research process and results.